“Right now, there are no cures for mitochondrial diseases,” says senior author Juan Carlos Izpisua Belmonte, professor in Salk's Gene Expression Laboratory….
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured a visible image of Typhoon Nangka nearing Japan on…
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Tennessee found that microorganisms called archaea living in…
A moth searching for its relatives: it may take many years from the discovery of a species and its scientific description to its systematic classification. For…
– Species believed extinct in Cambodia until rediscovery in 2000
An international team of researchers has developed a new map of the distribution of dark matter in the universe using data from the Dark Energy Survey (DES).
The coffee berry borer is the most devastating coffee pest in the world. The tiny beetle is found in most regions where coffee is cultivated, and a big…
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have discovered a new type of material which stores heat energy for a prolonged period, which they have termed a “heat…
A constant power supply in a defined quality is essential for the interference-free operation of numerous industrial production and automation processes as…
A team of scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P) discovered that electrical conduction in graphene on the picosecond timescale – a…
On the basis of this principle, researchers Isik Karahanoglu and Dimitri Van De Ville have managed to visualize the different activation regions of the brain….
The study describes an approach to simplify a laborious part of the gene editing process using the CRISPR/Cas9 system: choosing the best components to match…
The roundworm C. elegans is widely used in aging research for several reasons: It is a multicellular organism with a short life cycle and mean lifespan of…
On Monday, July 13th, the Center for Marine Environmental Sciences in Bremen/Germany received its new submersible, the MARUM-SQUID. The remotely operated…
Almost 100 years ago, astronomers discovered that the spectrum of star light arrived on earth with dark gaps, so-called interstellar bands. Ever since,…
An ongoing international effort to redefine the kilogram by 2018 has been helped by recent efforts from a team researchers from Italy, Japan and Germany to…